Three weeks after the shooting at the Plaza Hotel, the Grand Ballroom of the New York Stock Exchange was packed to capacity for an unprecedented joint shareholder assembly. Television cameras from Bloomberg, CNBC, and the Wall Street Journal lined the perimeter, broadcasting live to fifty million viewers across the globe. Today was the official signing ceremony creating *Vanguard-Sterling Global Enterprises*—a corporate titan valued at 1.2 trillion dollars. Sitting side by…
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